Cyanotypes

Cyanotypes are of my favorite type of prints to do, there so easy and fun! Within in a day you can make a print come to life, while using a cool color scheme. One of the cyanotypes I've done that I took in the summer look like it was taken in the exact opposite season due to how it turned out.  The clouds are enhanced looking like a winter storm. Though I'm not the best painter I like the hands on experience you have with a photo from start to finish, even getting to paint what you want to show up.

Here are some cyanotypes that I really like:

Michael Wittig 

By Michael Wittig

By Two Kitties (blog)

Japanese Stab Binding Books

 Throughout the last two classes we have learned different techniques and styles of making a Japanese Stab Binding Book. This being Japanese 4 hole binding, Noble binging, and Tortoise- Shell Binding. Though the earliest known book binding was “ Butterfly Binding” in China in 1000 C.E. “Bookbinding is the process of physically assembling a book from an ordered stack of paper sheets that are folded together into sections or sometimes left as a stack of individual sheets.” The stack is bound together along one edge by threads that can make numerous different desighns as wells as a colorful cover, typically. 

Here are some examples:

By Ffion

By Unknown

By Iveta Krajcirova